Son sets on O Canada?

The phrase “In all thy sons command” has some women calling for a gender-neutral version, Industry Minister Tony Clement says, citing an email from a constituent.

What women? Not this one. If there was some massive campaign underway to make the national anthem more “gender-neutral”, I wasn’t aware of it, and wouldn’t have supported it if I had been.

This is nothing but a distraction — penny-ante bullshit that serves no purpose other than to offend Canadians and fill their hearts with loathing for all things feminist. CPC stenographers are already hard at it, blaming their favourite whipping girls for this little outrage, when the whipping girls are for the most part just as surprised by it as anyone else.

Or maybe it’s the car keys jangled to get the dog’s attention away from the steak on the budget BBQ in advance of serving it up today. Either way it’s brainless and puerile posturing, and I want no part of it other than to mock it.

I wouldn’t object to removing any “god” references, but OTOH I don’t feel strongly about it either. My overall opinion about all of this O Canada stuff is *yawn*. Pretty obvious what’s really going on.

First, the original lyric was in french, so the English is a translation. And in order to fit the rhyme and meter, certain parts of the English translation already do not match the original lyric. So, yeah, it could be rewritten.

You are absolutely right. This is not about gender-equality; this is about trying to change the channel on the Harper Government’s continuing pattern of contempt for our democratic institutions and to change the channel on the other problems that Canada faces. Raising the question of the wording of the anthem is just a cynical attempt to do that.

You guys already said it all. Pure quintessential Harper Distraction Technique (TM). Most people don’t give a damn, but they sure are trying to make us. I think the opposition should do a actual yawn on this one then change the subject immediately to something Canadian care about, like jobs, or a massive deficit on the back of a 2% gst reduction.

Non-thinkers might be distracted by this shit from the important issues facing Harper and his cons. He might even succeed in making it look sensible, while redneck country & western music plays in the background. Was that a banjo and I guitar I heard?

smelter rat – Coming off of the most anthem-singing two weeks in the last decade, it’s obvious that they’re striking while the iron is hot. Any other time nobody would care. It would still be a dumb idea, but people wouldn’t be as outraged about it.

CTZen – The funny thing is, there’s nothing so outrageously different about the new budget from the previous ones, at least from the liberal commentary I’ve seen. Certainly Iggy didn’t think it was worth going to the polls over (surprise surprise).